Last weekend, I had a disgusting sushi dining experience. We went to Ino
Sushi in Japantown in San Francisco where we had been three times previously
and had been quite impressed. This time, in making two inside-out rolls,
the chef rolled the rice and seaweed up, and then, instead of covering the
roll with the sushi mat and squeezing, he covered it first with the dirty
rag he had been using to wipe the counter and his hands, and then squeezed
the sushi mat over that, pressing the grime from the rag into the rice. We
lost our appetite, paid, and left, and will never go back. Has anyone else
ever seen this practice of squeezing the sushi with the rag?